cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/350
In case your instance does not federate to something you would like it to, follow these steps:
- Go to your instance URL in a web browser - https://lemmy.cafe
- Click
Communities- Enter something in format !community@instance, e.g.
!general@lemmy.cafe. Click the search button.- Nothing will show up, give it a couple of seconds
- Click
Communitiesagain- Select
All- Your searched community should now be on the list
- Click
Subscribenext to it- ???
- Profit!
TBH, the UI of Lemmy is rouuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. I’m confident through attention with more ex-Redditors joining + through open source contributions, it’ll get better and better, stuff like this will be resolved (even with something as simple as a loading spinner)